Equity Release

Record year for equity release predicted by IFAs

A large majority of IFAs expect record lending in the equity release sector in...

L&G Home Finance to host CII accredited equity release workshops

Legal & General Home Finance is to offer its first new CII-accredited workshops for...

Canada Life offers 2019 round of equity release exam workshops

Canada Life Home Finance has announced a new range of workshops to help mortgage...

Pair of directorial appointments for AIR Group

Answers in Retirement Group (AIR Group) has announced the recruitment of two senior appointments. During...

‘Maximum borrowing’ was top Knowledge Bank criterion search in December

Knowledge Bank has revealed the top five, most searched criteria by brokers during December...

Brand revamp for Equity Release Supermarket

Independent equity release broker Equity Release Supermarket has launched a new website and revealed...

OneFamily extends two-year fixed lifetime mortgage

OneFamily is extending its two-year fixed lifetime mortgage rate for an additional year. The offer...

Surge in equity release referrals

Key Partnerships has stated that its equity release referrals are up 30% year on...

Strong membership growth for the Equity Release Council

Membership of the Equity Release Council has increased annually by 46% to more than...

Increasingly expensive homes being used for OneFamily lifetime mortgages

The price of a property OneFamily lends on is now 59% higher than average,...

Equity release used to make homes safer and more comfortable

Canada Life has revealed that 50% of its equity release customers used some, or...

AIR Group launches full service para-packaging proposition

Answers in Retirement Group (AIR Group) has launched ‘AiR Prestige’, a new, full service,...

L&G unveils lifetime mortgage to bridge retirement income gap

Legal & General has launched a new lifetime mortgage that gives customers more flexibility...

North East leads the way in homeowner generosity to children

76% of homeowners over the age of 55 are looking to help their children...

COMMENT

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

Latest news

Brokers report rising caution among borrowers as remortgaging picks up

Mortgage brokers are seeing more remortgage activity, but say geopolitical uncertainty, cost of living...

Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...

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